The World's End is a 2013 British science fiction comedy film
directed by Edgar Wright, written by him and the critical acclaimed actor Simon
Pegg, seen in epic blockbuster like Star Trek: Into Darkness and Mission
Impossible IV. It is the third movie in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy,
following Shaun of the Dead and
Hot Fuzz. The film is about a
group of old friends who try to reach the last pub in their unfinished pub
crawl while discovering that their hometown turned into a an alien invasion
gateway. Sounds ridiculous, right? That’s the fun part about the movie. It may
doesn’t reach the amount of jokes like Hangover 3 did, but the jokes are better
constructed that takes a moment to fully understand them, because many of them
have an underlying meaning.

I've
been a health care practitioner for the past 34 years, Chiropractor,
Homeopath, Master's in Nutrition, mostly doing functional medicine. But
I've always had a burning interest in fantasy, magic, etc. A much
different side of me, I know. About five years ago, after having made
notebooks full of ideas, I sat down one very wintry Saturday afternoon
and started to write my first book of The Persephane Pendrake
Chronicles. The pie in the oven, burned, but the first three chapters
were born.

September 15, 2013

Hi,
Patrick! What to say about me? Well, I grew up in Louisiana, moved to Tennessee
when I was in my twenties, and then to Georgia when in my thirties. I have five
rowdy children who range from age seven to seventeen that are the light of my
life. I’ve been a reader since I was four years old and a writer from the time
I could hold a pencil and scribble on paper. I write Historical Fiction, Middle
Grade Fiction, Paranormal, How-To, and Fantasy. My imagination is boundless and
I let it run amok as often as possible.

September 8, 2013

I’ve recently started learning German and
have discovered a whole world of new words; words which do not have an English
equivalent. This has led me to wonder how learning another language can help
improve our ability to express our feelings, and maybe even make us more aware
of those feelings in the first place.

For example, I’ve experienced weltschmerz for many years, but I never
had a nice neat word for it until now. The literal translation of weltschmerz
means ‘world-pain’, or world-weariness, and was coined by the German author,
Jean Paul Richter. It’s the feeling ‘experienced by someone who understands
that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind’, or ‘the
feeling of sadness when thinking about the evils of the world’. Upon
discovering this word I felt a weight lifted from me; having a singular word
has helped me accept that feeling and it seems easier to deal with now that I
have a label for it in my mind and it’s not just some intangible experience.

I live in England with my fabulous wife and for a
living I smash up cars in an attempt to make them safer (basically, I design
the bits on your car which are meant to bend when someone drives into you).

At night, I become an Imaginaut and I write. I love
reading and writing horror, science fiction and fantasy stories. I am also a complete
super geek; I have a line-to-line photographic memory when it comes to a
surprising number of horror and science fiction movies. Seriously, send me a
line and chances are I’ll be able to tell you who said it and in what movie!